Site details

Knossos: LM Tomb

PK	C5584
TITLE	Knossos: LM Tomb
WGS84	35.293768° N, 25.163045° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	35.293768, 25.163045
LON/LAT	25.163045, 35.293768

DMS

35° 17' 37.5648" N

25° 9' 46.962" E

W3W	staging, talker, sailed
UTM	35 S, 332967, 3907169
EGSA87	605603, 3905953

Elevation m	112
Elevation feet	367.5
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tomb

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 58    A Chamber Tomb seems to have been meant but Hood does not say so. '...abundant fragments of Minoan pottery, ...'
2.    Tomb.   Catling [1976], 11    'A possible Late Minoan tomb on Lower Gipsadhes...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 58, 'LATE MINOAN TOMB...'

2. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Catling [1976]: 11, '...; it included fragments of a fine LM IB Marine Style vase ...'

3. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 58, '..., with nothing later than the beginning of L. M. III A, were recovered from the fill...'
    b.    Catling [1976]: 11, 'None of the pottery in the fill of the resulting pit was later than LM IIIA1; ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Catling [1976]: Catling, H.W.. ‘The Knossos Area, 1974-1976’, Archaeological Reports (23), 3-23, 1976-1977., '', pg. 11. Online here.

2. Hood and Smyth [1981]: Hood, Sinclair and David Smyth. ‘Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area’, The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes, No. 14, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area, pp. i-x & 1-69, 1981, '321. LATE MINOAN TOMB (?)', pg. 58. Online here.